Somehow I doubt account->bitcoin->different account is faster and cheaper than ACH or venmo. Your second case is also either no issue, or you now have the issu

Somehow I doubt account->bitcoin->different account is faster and cheaper than ACH or venmo. Your second case is also either no issue, or you now have the issue of how to turn bits into cash in a foreign country, which doesn't seem easier. I may lack imagination, but I am also not subject to the paranoid delusions that seem to surround this stuff.